Tuesday, September 11, 2012

NJ Bears are the wimps of Beardom

Once upon a time, angry, pissed
off bears filled what would later be called the United States. Doesn’t matter if
you met a Grizzly or a Poorly Named Black Bear (called PNBB forthwith). They’d
both rather kill you for dinner than to let you breed more annoying, gun toting
humans.

In the area later called
Montana, bears did a fine job controlling the human population. However, the
PNBB, in what would later be called New Jersey, became infested with the
unwanted cockroach of two legged creatures. (I’m referring to humans…try to keep
up.)

To be fair, the Montana bears
had it easier. It took humans forever to reach their land, and if caught in
their just-arrived-nearly-starved and exhausted state, they were easy to kill
and eat, although the meat was a bit tough and boney. Secondly, not a lot of
their females wanted to go to Montana, so human breeding was spotty at
best.

However, New Jersey humans bred
like rabbits, and soon they filled up the entire state. They cut down all the
trees so they could farm the land or burrow beneath soil for iron ore, limestone
and other things the PNBB’s had no interest in. And back then, everyone carried
a gun. So the bears packed up and left NJ realizing that while they could kill
one human at a time, they would be utterly exhausted long before the humans went
extinct.

Eventually, the rest of the
states became difficult for bears, and some decided to return to NJ and live in
the new woods growing on the mounds of rocky rubble that had once been mining
communities. Some bears flourished and some did not. And that is the crux of my
story today, so pay attention.

The aggressive bears who left
the woods and stormed into the nearby communities were summarily shot. The less
aggressive bears who remained in the woods survived to have cubs. Do you see
where I’m going?

As time went along, the humans
claimed more and more of the woods, and if a bear stood his or her ground, out
came the rifle. (Let me clear, the human came out with the rifle. Bears have
never learned to shoot with any accuracy. If they had, a bear would be telling
this story instead of me, and his claws would be doing serious damage to the
keyboard.)

Now, a hundred years of
eliminating bears who wished to stand their ground and declare “I have a right
to be here!” has passed and with each generation of cubs born from the meekest
of the Please-Don’t-Shoot-Me Bears, our current day NJ bears are an
embarrassment to the PNBB society of bears. (51 word sentence)

Currently, our local police
forces will shoot a bear for just about anything: strolling into a backyard,
eating a pet rabbit left in an outdoor cage, tossing the garbage, or even
napping in trees near a house.

The population has become so
timid, that my dog and I have encountered two females with cubs and the females
did not attack. In one case, mamma bear didn’t even bother to show up and
complain and in the other, the mother lost track of her cub as she played Peek a
boo behind a tree with me. (I’m not making that up. It really
happened.)

We also ran into a giant 600
pound fellow who was only 30 yards away. My dog barked up a storm, saying all
sorts of things about his manhood and mother, yet the bear never once bared his
teeth. He just looked at me, looking at him. (He was the biggest bear I’ve seen
in real life, and I had absolutely no fear of him at all. He didn’t get that big
by scaring people. (Scaring people is also a shooting offense.) His silence
said, “I’m just here for the garbage, ma’am. Just walk on and take that annoying
fox with you.”

(Jess did not appreciate the
fox slur and called him a spineless cow in return.)

Currently a peace has settled
between human cockroaches and wimpy NJ bears. We can safely walk our patches of
wilderness, and they can live as long as they don’t frighten or annoy
us.

So what does our dopey, dare I
say ‘rotund’ governor do? He reinstates bear hunting season. Now the peace is
broken and for one week our woods are unsafe to travel in due to lunatic
hunters.

I’m inviting the bears to next
year’s bear hunt protest. They’ll be very docile, I promise. In fact, we’ll put
clothes on them so no one realizes they are bears.

But we human cockroaches and
our wimpy bears have a right to protest. Unlike the police who have been so kind
to remove the aggressive bears, the hunters just want to shoot the biggest
bear…or any bear for that matter. And in doing so they are messing up our secret
‘breeding wimps’ program and both my dog and I want it stopped.

Or we’ll send you to
Montana….

Yes this is a reprint from my other blog, but only five people read it and I wanted it to have a bigger audience.

1 comment:

Instead of a protest, I like the idea of arming the wimpy PNBBs and teaching them to shoot. It would be good for the hunters too. I mean, lets face it, how fun can it be to shoot a bear from afar when there is no chance of retailiation.

Bear-snipers would add a entirely new element of fun and challenge for hunters and might discourage a few of them.